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Mama Bear Apologetics

Episode 151. The Problem of Evil

Mama Bear Apologetics

Hillary Morgan Ferrer & Amy Davison

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This episode of the Mama Bear Apologetics podcast explores one of the biggest challenges to the Christian faith: the problem of evil. Amy & Tricia discuss how both children and adults wrestle with suffering, tragedy, and the existence of evil in a world created by a good and all-powerful God. Using scripture, philosophy, practical examples, and personal stories, they explain the difference between natural evil and moral evil, define goodness and evil from a biblical worldview, and demonstrate why evil actually points toward the existence of God rather than disproving Him.

The conversation emphasizes the importance of proactively preparing children to think biblically about suffering before tragedy strikes. The hosts explain that evil is not a created “thing,” but rather a corruption or absence of goodness. They discuss how free will makes love possible but also allows humans to choose evil. The episode also highlights the Christian hope found in Christ’s victory over sin and evil through the cross and resurrection, while awaiting the final restoration of all things.

The hosts provide practical illustrations from parenting, literature, philosophy, and science to help families explain these difficult concepts to children in age-appropriate ways. The episode closes with recommended resources for parents, teens, and children to continue learning about suffering, evil, and God’s goodness.

Main Points Covered

  • Why Parents Should Discuss Evil Proactively
  • The Philosophical Problem of Evil
  • Defining Good and Evil
  • Natural Evil vs. Moral Evil
  • The Origin of Evil
  • Teaching Children About Evil

Resources Mentioned

Scriptures Mentioned

  • Jeremiah 12:1
  • Romans 2
  • Mark 10:18
  • Luke 18:19
  • Psalm 104
  • Romans 5
  • Genesis 1–3
  • Ezekiel 28


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0:00.0

J.P. Morland says that evil is a lack of goodness. It is goodness oiled. You can have good without evil, but you cannot have evil without good.

0:19.3

Welcome to the Mama Bear Apologetics podcast. I'm Hillary. And I'm Amy. We are just two gals who are spiritually armed, highly caffeinated. And just sassy enough to make bad ideas cry. Mama Bear is a ministry dedicated to helping you raise children who think critically, love biblically, and stand firm in the faith using scripture, reason, and reality.

0:37.9

Because remember, Mama Bears, this might not affect your faith.

0:41.0

But it might affect your children.

0:45.7

Hey, everyone.

0:47.0

Welcome to another Mama Bear Apologetics podcast, a podcast dedicated to helping you raise children

0:52.6

who think critically, love biblically, and stand

0:55.7

firm in the faith using scripture, reason, and reality. Well, me and Tricia today, we are

1:00.8

tackling a very important issue that sometimes we, I don't think that we really address until

1:07.4

a tragedy has occurred. And that is, we are going to look at the problem of evil. Now,

1:13.3

sometimes this is a subject that we don't really bring up until perhaps something happens at

1:18.1

school or nationally. And this is one of those conversations that I think is really helpful

1:23.6

to be both proactive and reactive about. because when we proactively discuss the nature

1:29.4

of the problem of evil and potential challenges often raised by critics, then we can lay that

1:34.9

foundation of faith within our children, that they have this firm foundation that they can rest

1:40.5

upon so that when trials occur and they unfortunately for our kiddos for us they come very

1:47.1

quickly when those trials occur they have that firm footing and then we can now react appropriately

1:54.3

help them grieve while still affirming the goodness of god and one thing i've kind of noticed

2:00.3

within our culture it sort of came

2:02.1

in this funny, I think it was like a TikTok video. There was a dad talking about the difference of

2:09.2

children's literature, like back in our day, versus the stuff that kids are reading now.

2:14.0

To where like back in our day, we sort of had this gradual introduction to trauma via things like

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